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[bag29uk]

Hi all hope someone can help, I am trying to burn some converted divx videos in divx using copy & convert as its only software I have too burn divx, The problem is if I add more than one movie I get error that cache and harddisk not enough room I am using dual layer dvd so no prob dvd disc, I have removed various progs and disc defrag and disc clean to no avail I have 52% free hard disc I am using temp folder sorry too go on been at this for a week frustrated thanks for any help tony

Sorry I am using roxio creator 2009

Edited by Brendon, 09 April 2009 - 03:11 AM.

[Brendon]

Hi Tony,

I tidied your post for you - it was a bit confusing quoting yourself.

I gather you're trying to burn a DivX DVD with a number of videos combined on the one disc as a big DivX AVI file. Is that right?

Please tell me,
[1] How long [in minutes] is each video?
[2] How much free space in megabytes/gigabytes is 52% of your hard disk?
[3] How is your hard disk formatted, NTFS or FAT32?

Thank you,
Brendon

Edited by Brendon, 09 April 2009 - 03:17 AM.

[bag29uk]

Hi Tony,

I tidied your post for you - it was a bit confusing quoting yourself.

I gather you're trying to burn a DivX DVD with a number of videos combined on the one disc as a big DivX AVI file. Is that right?

Please tell me,
[1] How long [in minutes] is each video?
[2] How much free space in megabytes/gigabytes is 52% of your hard disk?
[3] How is your hard disk formatted, NTFS or FAT32?

Thank you,
Brendon

hi brendon thanks so much for reply I am trying too burn 2/3 divx movies I have converted from avi as I thought they would be smaller than dvd?, Each file is approx. i have converted them from avi with avi converter,

1   400 mins long /1.40gb
2 Free space on hard drive 15.3gb
3 hard disc seems to be NTFS
Thank you for any help possible kind regards Tony

[ggrussell]

400min?  Over 6hours?  1 hr of HQ MPEG 2 = 4.7GB so converting that at best quality would take twice what you have available!  Creator 2009 can not fit 6 hrs on one DVD.  Maximum using MyDVD is about 3hours and the quality would be unacceptable to most users especially on a large screen TV.

Edited by ggrussell, 09 April 2009 - 07:28 AM.

[myguggi]

400min?  Over 6hours?  1 hr of HQ MPEG 2 = 4.7GB so converting that at best quality would take twice what you have available!  Creator 2009 can not fit 6 hrs on one DVD.  Maximum using MyDVD is about 3hours and the quality would be unacceptable to most users especially on a large screen TV.

Gary, OP is not creating a "standard DVD" but wants to burn DivX video to a DVD.

[Brendon]

hi brendon thanks so much for reply I am trying too burn 2/3 divx movies I have converted from avi as I thought they would be smaller than dvd?, Each file is approx. i have converted them from avi with avi converter,

1   400 mins long /1.40gb
2 Free space on hard drive 15.3gb
3 hard disc seems to be NTFS
Thank you for any help possible kind regards Tony

Hi Tony,

AVI files are merely container files, which are filled with compressed video. DivX is just one of the compressors which can be used to squash the video into an AVI, so DIVX FILES = AVI FILES.

So if you have converted these files FROM AVI, what have you converted them to?, and what type of disc are you trying to write?
Can you tell me what OUTPUT format you have set in Video Copy & Convert [VCC]  please???

[bag29uk]

Hi Tony,

AVI files are merely container files, which are filled with compressed video. DivX is just one of the compressors which can be used to squash the video into an AVI, so DIVX FILES = AVI FILES.

So if you have converted these files FROM AVI, what have you converted them to?, and what type of disc are you trying to write?
Can you tell me what OUTPUT format you have set in Video Copy & Convert [VCC]  please???

I have set too record in divx as I have divx dvd player at home thank you 1000%

I have set too record in divx as I have divx dvd player at home thank you 1000%

sorry missed a bit old age im making film for grandkids I converted from xvid or avi too divx using xillsoft converter thanks all for your time

[Brendon]

Hi Tony,

XviD and DivX are brothers - sort of. They're both video compressors which can be used in AVIs. Your DVD player should play both sorts usually, although you might find a few XviD ones which need to be re-coded.

What I don't understand is that if you've used the Xillsoft converter to re-code your AVIs with DivX, what are you now trying to turn them into with Video Copy and Convert?. A Video-DVD ??


Now you can recode 120 minutes of DVD video into a quite nice 1.4 GiB AVI file, and 180 minutes with a push, but if you tried to compress 400 minutes into that you're going to get severely degraded video. Frankly, it will come out very messy indeed.

You could store three of those AVIs onto a data DVD as AVIs, but that disc won't play on just any DVD player, only one that's DivX certified like yours.

If you try and convert them to Video-DVD so they will play on any DVD player [and not just a DivX certified one] then they have to be uncompressed to MPEG format and that would typically blow up a 400 minute AVI into over 14 GiB of MPEG-2. Just the MPEG file alone would be crowding the free space on your hard drive with 1 x 400 minute AVI, and trying to handle more than one would blow the mission completely.

This scenario sounds terribly like the problem you reported. Is that what you've been trying to do?

Edited by Brendon, 09 April 2009 - 05:17 PM.

[ggrussell]

Gary, OP is not creating a "standard DVD" but wants to burn DivX video to a DVD.

Thanks for your input Walt. You read the post one way and I interpreted differently.  Why is he using Video Copy and Convert?   If he wants to create a data disc with the DivX file, he is using the wrong application.

bag29uk - Since you have a DivX player, you need to burn the disc as 'data'.  Use Creator Classic or the Home application.

If you want to create a VIDEO DVD that will play on any DVD player, the video is way too long.

Edited by ggrussell, 10 April 2009 - 05:43 AM.